E Reading Quotes
It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.
The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice.
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life.
To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.
Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly rang false when I spoke their words in our living room.
A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and I know it sounds hokey and librarianish to say so, but I just swooned when he did that.
The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.
Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.
I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
Words are the only things that last for ever.
Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I am not alone.
Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.
Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.
In fact, the Devil is delighted when we spend our time and energy defending the Bible, as long as we do not get around to actually reading the Bible.
Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.
I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.
Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.